The OFFICIAL DC Universe Online Thread (was Beta)

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Chibibar

Heh. While Acrobatic is kinda cool for RP purpose (I actually made 3-4 chara that have acrobatics) flight is the "awesome" you can get to point A to Point B better than any other travel powers.
The only power I don't like is superspeed. I get dizzy trying to navigate that (you can run and stay in place side ways and upside down while moving)
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

Yeah I have the same issue with superspeed. I have a pair of gloves that when I equip them I get the acrobatics move set so my RP is covered there :)
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if anyone is online right now I am hovering over Lexcorp tower. Ill invite you to group and we can make a league (and Ill power you through some instances for cash and loot)
 
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Chibibar

note: the only "lag" I get so far is the initial character/world loading. Once the character list is loaded, then I might get a "You are in queue X in line" message, but once in the game, I don't get any lag at all. I am using U-Verse service in Texas.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Hey, at least in DC, Super Speed lets you run up walls. In City of Heroes it didn't even do that much... you'd be stuck using a temporary Jetpack for anything higher than a normal jump.
 
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Chibibar

AshburnerX said:
Hey, at least in DC, Super Speed lets you run up walls. In City of Heroes it didn't even do that much... you'd be stuck using a temporary Jetpack for anything higher than a normal jump.
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Yea. I am happy that superspeed allows you to run up walls and even go upside down. It is just too fast for me and I get dizzy really fast (especially if I start running up buildings) It is a cool power and love it what they do to it.

What is even cooler is that movement powers can have extra in it.
Flight
You can have supersonic where auto flight goes REALLY fast
Dive bomb, when diving, you can damage people as you land.
Extra defense/offense buff to your character via movement skill tree (yea there is some good powers there)
 
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Jiarn

So what are all the travel powers? I was pretty fond of "Teleport" in Champions and my brother loved Burrowing.
 
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Chibibar

Sadly there are currently 3 (don't know if they will ever expand it)

Superspeed = runs really fast. I don't know about the "side buffs" since none of my chara has superspeed. You can run up walls and hang there. I think you "glide too" but not sure.

Acrobatic = This one is interesting. You can "make large strides" when you are not in combat mode and climb on walls BUT the interesting part is when you jump and hold down jump button you "glide" down. The "power up" is you can glide SUPER fast at level 9 (if you buy the power)

Flight = traditional flight. At level 9 you can buy supersonic which allows you to fly REALLY fast (harder to turn etc) but nice to have. When you are in combat mode, you go into hover mode. There are several buffs you can buy too.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

City of Heroes did something similar. Basically, each Travel Power was divided into a pool of 4 powers, with the first two being selectable, then the other two needing 1-2 powers from the same pool to select. So if you took teleport, you'd pick from teleporting a friend or teleporting an enemy close to you, then you'd get the self teleport, then you could take the group teleport if you wanted it.

They'll probably add more travel abilities later on. Teleport seems obvious, but I could also see a grappling hook thing or long jumping.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

You also get ziplines and grapple hooks with acrobatics, and you do eventually get rocket flight with it, though you won't be soaring up and over buildings, it's more like infinite glide
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Alright, I think I finally have a character I like. Before the brainiac invasion, he was just a simple museum curator. Now, finding himself with mystical powers, he's taken on the name of Usiris.

 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Here's PS238. It's about the first public school for metahuman children. It's kind of like if Xavier Academy from the X-Men and Hogwarts from Harry Potter were combined, but staffed by the Avengers. Oddly enough, I think it's the best super hero comic out there right now.

The online site is mostly bare, as the author does his blog updates over at his Nodwick (another great comic) site, but it contains info on how to order the books if you want them. The author is kind of like a reverse Phil Foglio in that he publishes the comics in print first, then puts up three pages a week on his website. It's actually a great idea... if I had the money, I'd go and buy all the issues of the comic right now.

Here's info on the Revenant, plus a picture.
The Revenant is, as stated before, much like Batman; he has no superpowers and instead relies on detective skills, gadgets, wealth, intimidation, physical and mental prowess in his war on crime. He is quoted as saying, "Sometimes I think access to cash is the greatest superpower of all." The Revenant is a character from a Michael Stackpole short story, “Peer Review”. Mr. Stackpole donated the Revenant to the PS 238 project. Moon Shadow, Cecil Holmes, and The Flea are disciples and sidekicks of the Revenant.

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FnordBear

FnordBear

LittleSin said:
So, I'm thinking of getting this for my birthday for PS3.

Is it worth it?
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I would not recommend getting it on the PS3. If anything it is buggier and the community is much more low brow and younger. Some folks on the official forums have commented that the players on the PS3 version are such a young and immature bunch that they repurchased on the PC to just play with different people.

Also the PS3 and PC servers are segregated. So you couldn't play with the other Fourmites.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I feel like the ps3 version has also gimped the pc version. I'm finding the lack of a mouse cursor really strange, as well as the lack of customizibility of the UI.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

Looks like a patch is droping today:


The US servers will be locked at 06:30 AM PST and brought offline at 07:00 AM PST for server maintenance. Downtime is anticipated to be one hour and the servers should be available at 08:00 AM PST.
General:
  • Improved Client performance and stability.
  • Addressed an issue where other characters may appear to "warp" onscreen.
  • The time it takes to get to Character Selection on launch has been reduced.
Audio:
  • Audio should no longer drop after cutscenes if you have your Music volume set to 0.
Chat:
  • The player’s Voice Chat Channel should now be selected according to the following priority, from highest to lowest:
    Alert
    Group
    Custom
    League
Player Appearance:
  • Equipping a new weapon should no longer cause your weapon appearance to disappear.
  • Swapping weapons with your weapon style locked should no longer cause the weapon appearance to change.
Movement:
Player character animations should no longer have the chance of getting stuck when weaponizing objects.
Missions:
  • Adjusted difficulty of content in the Venom Lab to level 7 to better match the surrounding content.
  • No Joke quest is now available at level 18 instead of 19.
  • A Crook’s Best Friend mission is now available at level 18 instead of 19.
  • Something’s Fishy… quest is now available at level 22 instead of 23.
  • Road to Hell quest is now available at level 22 instead of 23.
  • Fateful Omen quest is now available at level 26 instead of 27.
  • Hardcorps quest is now available at level 26 instead of 27.
UI:
Pressing the "Accept" button on the Server Selection screen multiple times should no longer result in odd ssues with Character Creation movies and UI.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

FnordBear said:
I would not recommend getting it on the PS3. If anything it is buggier and the community is much more low brow and younger. Some folks on the official forums have commented that the players on the PS3 version are such a young and immature bunch that they repurchased on the PC to just play with different people.

Also the PS3 and PC servers are segregated. So you couldn't play with the other Fourmites.
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I'm so sad about this.

My laptop doesn't even meet the minimum specs needed to run this. :(
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I actually got it running pretty well on my laptop after setting the draw distance to low, and turning down world detail (though I kept character detail high, because I want to see what people's heroes look like). Also, it's the unreal engine, so if you're used to optimizing that, you should be fine.

Also, I don't know if it was today's patch, or if they upgraded some servers near me, or what, but the horrible, game-breaking lag I was experiencing before is completely gone. Game's awesome now.

Now if we could just get a decent chat system.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Yeah, the MMOs that were intended for consoles (Champions, DCU) tend to have really bad chat systems because most of the player base don't have proper keyboards or use voice chat.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

So having hit 30 over the weekend and found out level 30 content is hard...

So who all that follows this thread is interested in forming a Half0rums based league on Vice and Virtue?

Main goals would be

1) Help fellow forum members with quests and instances as well as share spare gear (since there is really no auction house or the like)
2) Attempt high level content
3) RP if anyone is in to that

My current level 30 is a controller built around power pool regen. Currently building up a healer built around critical heals (and for fun my healer's RP story is basically myself if I lived in the DC universe)

So any takers or interest? Would need to get at least three of us to meet up online to form the league.

Assuming interest we can then discuss naming of the league.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

I'm at work right now so can't hop on. Typically I'm on 10am-11:30am mon-weds then on thursday I am on pretty much whenever.

Just add "The Warden" or "Fnord" to your buddy list.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

FnordBear said:
I'm at work right now so can't hop on. Typically I'm on 10am-11:30am mon-weds then on thursday I am on pretty much whenever.

Just add "The Warden" or "Fnord" to your buddy list.
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I have no idea how to access a buddy list. The UI for this game is... unintuitive to me.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

hit escape

Go to the social tab

On the righthand pane it defauls to listing "everyone near you" to the left and at the top of that pane is a drop down.

Change the drop down to "friends" on the right a box will appear you can type in with a + in it.

Type screen name in the box and hit +

That adds to the friend list manually.


Yes this sucks. Royally. SOE promices they will fix it in first content update.
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

Is there a demo/trial yet? I don't want to use anyone's buddy pass because I suspect I won't like it (didn't like CoH or ChampsOnline), but the DC-aspect of it makes it appealing.
 
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Chibibar

I am making a new build that I like which is Martial Art/Pole arm (for critical heals) and Sorcery. My character is almost spec for healing which makes soloing a bit harder but interesting.

name is Miaka Yuki (she is level 13 now)
 
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Jiarn

There are buddy passes? I'd love to give this a shot, I'm really starting to consider it my "off WoW time" game.
 
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